This year has been a strange one for Oasis, the legendary British rock group who continue to gain new fans as well as keep hold of their old ones. For most of 2009 Oasis have been on a world tour in support of Dig Out Your Soul, and selling out everywhere they go. But alongside that success has been reports of in-fighting and rumors they are about to split.

Oasis played the first of the V Festival on Saturday but canceled their headline appearance on Sunday due to Liam Gallagher apparently having fallen victim to viral laryngitis. Snow Patrol replaced them …read more

With all the in-fighting, arguments, line-up changes, and controversy surrounding Oasis, I’m personally amazed they have lasted as long as they have. Really, you would have thought something would have had to give by now, with the group falling down like stack of dominoes at the slightest touch. But no, 18 years after being formed, Oasis are still going strong.

So strong in fact that they still manage to sell out huge venues time after time. Oasis announce a tour or concert, and it sell out in a matter of minutes. The music may be generic, Liam’s drawl may now be …read more

Oasis are currently on a world tour in support of their Dig Out Your Soul album, and things aren’t going too smoothly. While it may be all sweetness and light on stage, there seems to be a bust-up in progress backstage.

A week ago, the current row between the Gallagher brothers Liam and Noel seemed to reach fever pitch. Both went public with their feelings on the tour and how relations were strained. And things don’t seem to be getting any better.
The problems seemed to begin when Noel expressed a desire to record and release material as a solo artist rather …read more

To say Oasis have had a troubled past would be akin to saying Adolf Hitler was a naughty boy – it’s an understatement of epic proportions. And it looks like another bust-up is on the way, with the Gallagher brothers seemingly at each other’s throats yet again.

Oasis as they are today are very different to what they were years ago. There has been numerous line-up changes with the only original members of the band left being Liam and Noel. The rest have either been fired, got bored and moved on, or left after getting fed up of the rows.
Bizarrely, the …read more

I regard Oasis as more of an albums band than a singles band. They’ve had some fantastic success with singles, and I’m sure people who love Wonderwall and Champagne Supernova while hating the rest of the band’s output will disagree with me. But their albums are generally where it’s at.
Which makes reviewing a new Oasis single a tricky thing to do. Especially when the song works much better as part of the Dig Out Your Soul album than it does on its own.
Oasis’ new single, the third from Dig Out Your Soul, is Falling Down, a Noel-sung slice of indie …read more

Oasis have only just released new album, Dig Out Your Soul, but haven’t wasted any time in announcing the tour to support it, and it’s a big one. While there are currently only eight gigs on the agenda, they’re all at huge venues, including two dates in Manchester and one each at Slane Castle, Dublin, and Wembley Stadium, London.
Noel announced the new Summer 2009 tour at the new Wembley Stadium which has already played host to the likes of Muse and Foo Fighters since it reopened in 2007. Tickets for all the shows will go on sale on Friday, October …read more

To celebrate the release of Dig Out Your Soul, Oasis‘ new album, I asked the question “What is the best Oasis track to date?” 100 people responded between September 15th and October 6th, and the results made for interesting (if not a bit predictable) reading.
The winner was clearly always going to be Wonderwall, as it’s the one song that everyone knows by Oasis, even if they hate everything else the band has ever produced. Live Forever, Champagne Supernova, Don’t Look Back In Anger, and Stand By Me all deserve their places in the top 5 as well.
Those results in full:-
Wonderwall …read more

The new Oasis album, Dig Out Your Soul, is released on Monday October 6th, but thanks to a preview screening on Oasis’ MySpace page, I’ve been able to review the album early.
Dig Out Your Soul is a strange beast because it is clearly Oasis, with hints of Britpop and old skool in there, but there’s also a feeling of the new and the experimental in there too. It feels like an album that’s sitting in the middle of a transition, as Oasis go from sneering British Indie band to alternative rockers.

Bag It Up – 8/10
An album opener that shows the …read more

The new Oasis album, Dig Out Your Soul, is as good as The Beatles classic album, Revolver, often cited as the Fab Four’s best long player.
At least that’s the opinion on Alan McGee, the former boss of Creation records who signed Oasis to his record label after seeing them play live in Glasgow in 1993.
In a Guardian newspaper article titled ‘Why the music world needs Oasis’, McGee recounts meeting the Gallagher brothers last year, a meeting that ended with typical Oasis debauchery.
Then he waxes lyrical about the new album and explains why he thinks it’s as good as …read more

Oasis are currently busy gearing up for the release of new album, Dig Out Your Soul, on October 6th. But could it be that this will be the last Oasis studio album for a while, with the members of the band going their own separate ways to work on solo projects?

In an interview with Blender magazine, Noel Gallagher answered questions put to him by readers. One of them asked: “When will you finally make a solo album?” Noel replied:
“I’d like for us to do separate projects after this record. We’d all have to agree on it, so it will probably …read more